Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-10

and accounts of the Pacific railroad. Of
the total number of
BILLS WHICH PASSED THE SENATE
800 bee eme laws, including lis of pub
tic and 200 of a strictly private nature.
The following is list of the more i'm
portant senate bills placed on the statute
books by the present congress: The
presidential succession bill devolving the
heirship of the presidency upon members
of the cabinet in the event of vacancy
in the Office of president aud vice presi-
dent; the Cullom- Reagan bill to regulate
lz1ng the transmission of weather re-
ports through the mails free of postage;
to increase the pension for loss of an
arm or leg; to indemnify the Chinese for
losses sustained by the Rock Springs,
Interstate commerce; for the retirement
End recoinage of the trade dollar; the
electoral count bill; for the allotment of
lands in severalty to Indians and extend
ing the protection of the laws to Indians
on the various reservations; to repeal the
tenure of Office act; to increase the an
nual appropriation for the militia;
to establish agricultural expert
mental stations; for the study
of the effects of narcotics and intoxi-
cants In public schools; to legalize the
Of trades unions; author
Wyoming, riot; for the relief of Texas,
Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska, California,
Kansas, Washington territory and Idaho;
to remove the charge of desertion from
the records of soldiers who re-enlisted
without having received a discharge on
account of the first enlistment; to estab-
lish two additional land districts in Ne
braska; to amend the laws relating to
patents, trade marks and copyrights; to
authorize the postmaster general to allow
compensation for railroad apartment car
service furnished pursuant to agreement,
to bridge the Mississippi river at st.
Louis; TO allow receivers of national
banks to buy on trust property on the ap-
proval Of the comptroller Of the cur
rency: to provide for the execution of
article of the Chinese treaty of Nov. 81,
1880 lit prohibits the importation of
opium into either country by citizens of
the other); for the erection of public
building at Milwaukee, Wis. Of the fore
going measures, seven became laws by
the expiration of the constitutional ten
days limitation. They were the Mormon
polygamy bill, trade dollar redemption
bill, militia bill and four private bills.
Ink SENATE
were 80 in number, IL being of public
and % Of private character. The pub
lilo bills vetoed were as follows: To quiet
the titles of the settlers of the Des Moines
river land (passed over the veto in thet
senate but failed of the necessary two
thirds vote in the house); for the erection
OF public buildings at GAINESVILLE, Ohio;
Lafayette, Ind; Sioux City, Iowa; Day
ton, Ohio; (passed over the veto in both
houses), and Lynn, Mass; to extend the
provisions of the immediate transporta-
tion act, to Omaha, Neb.; to grant rail
road right of way through the Indian
reservation in Northern Montana.
THE SO HOUSE BILLS VETOED
incluoed 81 private bills and 6 bills of
a public nature. The public bills vetoed
We're for the erection of federal buildings
at Sprinfield Mo-, Duluth Mimi, AshvilIe
n. O., and Portsmouth Ohio; to distrib-
ute $4,000 worth of seeds among the
drouth stricken people of Texas, and to
grant pensions to dependent relatives of
deceased soldiers. An effort made to
pass the dependent pension bill over the
veto failed
THR REGULAR APPROPRIATION BILLS
which failed to become laws we're: The
forthcations bill for both congresses; the
river and harbor bill of the present ses-
sion, which was not signed by the presi-
dent; and the deficiency bill, on which the
conferees' report was not submitted in
time for action. The failure of the for
tifcations bill was due to the decided diff
ferences of opinion between the confer
ees of the two houses.
OTHER BILLS THAT FAILED TO BECOME LAWS.
Fifty bills in addition to those which
became laws and those vetoed were
sent to the president, but were
"pocketed" by him on the adjournment
OF congress and therefore failed. The
most important are the following: The
river and harbor bill; to prevent the en-
ployment of convict and alien labor on
public works; the O:Neill labor arbitra-
tiOn bill for the settlement of controver-
sizes between the inter state railroads and
their employees; the Morrison surplus
resolutions: the bill establishing addition
al aids to navigation at the mouth of the
Mississippi, and FORGETTING the land grant
to the railroad from Ontonagon so the
Wisconsin state line also failed in con-
ference, while the bill to create depart
ment of agriculture and labor was killed
by the inability Of its friends to send it
to the conference committee. About
$50 bills and joint resolutions which
passed the house failed of action IN the
senate, some of which, however, were
defeated by adverse committee reports.
About $50 bills passed by the senate failed
of passage in the house. The Cameron
(Pa.) twin bills appropriating $35,OO0,000
for an increase of the navy were sent to
the naval committee and died there
although the provision for additional
vessels was inserted in the naval approp-
ration bill. The twin Notifications bills
which passed the senate were allowed to
sleep in the house appropriations COM
mittee room. The Dakota admission
bill still slumbers on the house
calendar. The bill for the admission
of Washington territory failed of action,
as did the blu to grant Dearborn park, to
the city of Chicago. The following
national measures failed of action, of an
affirmative vote in either house: The
Morrison and other tariff bills which the
house on a test vote refused even to con-
slider; the various bills on the silver
question; to establish uniform
bankruptcy law; the Hennepin Canal bill;
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